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    Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB, PC (born Jean Louis de Ligonnier; 7 November 1680 – 28 April 1770), styled Sir John Ligonier from 1743 to...
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  • Lord Ligonier was an 18th-century British slave ship built in New England that unloaded enslaved Africans in Annapolis, Maryland in 1767. The ship was...
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    After a nightmarish journey across the Atlantic on board the slave ship Lord Ligonier, he is landed in Annapolis, Maryland. John Waller of Spotsylvania County...
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  • and Jinna to the crew of the Lord Ligonier, a British slave ship. After Kunta and Jinna are brought onboard the Lord Ligonier, they discover that Kunta's...
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    miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the Lord Ligonier, the slave ship that brought Kunta Kinte to America. The role earned...
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    Church in America. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named for the Ligonier Valley just outside Pittsburgh, where the ministry started...
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  • bound, and a prisoner. He and others were put on the slave ship the Lord Ligonier for a four-month Middle Passage voyage to North America. Kunta survived...
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    outstanding furore with the most distinguished soldier of his generation, Lord Ligonier. I have not time to answer your Lordship's letter of Sunday, which i...
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    the post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. While in Dublin he befriended the celebrated writer Jonathan Swift. He also encountered Lord Ligonier who would...
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    book states that Kunta Kinte was among 98 slaves that the slave ship Lord Ligonier brought to Annapolis, Maryland in 1767. "Kunta Kinteh Island and Related...
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  • Quarley in Hampshire. Richard Cox came into the service of a General, Lord Ligonier, as a clerk in the early 1740s. In 1747 he married Caroline Codrington...
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    quarter-master general. King George refused to make this appointment also until Lord Ligonier talked to the king about the matter and the king changed his mind. When...
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  • Captain Thomas Davies meets Villars, the owner of a cargo ship named the Lord Ligonier, and is given command of the vessel in order to trade goods between...
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    of Kinte's capture. Haley also traced the records of the ship, The Lord Ligonier, which he said carried his ancestor to the Americas. Haley stated that...
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    trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library. WorldCat link Lord Ligonier. See Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. Lune, a British...
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  • The Ligonier Meeting was a meeting of twenty-eight or twenty-nine Orthodox Christian hierarchs in North America, specifically those affiliated with SCOBA...
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    Office. ISBN 978-0-16-048728-6. Whitworth, Rex (1958). Field Marshal Lord Ligonier: A Story of the British Army, 1702–1770. London: Oxford University Press...
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    Lauffeld, a decisive French victory where only cavalry charges led by Lord Ligonier saved the Allied infantry from annihilation. This ended Hawley's active...
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  • named for the commander-in-chief of the British Army, Field Marshal Lord John Ligonier. Alarmed at the approach of the British, the French and their Indian...
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    Hon. Penelope Ligonier (née Pitt; later Brown; 1749 – March 1827), styled Viscountess Ligonier from 1766–1772, was an English aristocrat and socialite...
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  • had three sons and one daughter. Whitworth, Rex (1958). Field Marshal Lord Ligonier: a Story of the British Army, 1702-1770. Clarendon Press. Whitworth...
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  • Francis Augustus Ligonier (1693 – 25 January 1746) was a French-born officer of the British Army. He was born François-Auguste de Ligonnier at Castres...
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  • Retrieved March 30, 2007. Buchanan, Brenda (1999). Sir John (later Lord) Ligonier in Bath History. Millstream Books. ISBN 978-0948975516. Cannon, Richard...
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    Lieutenant General Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier KB (1740 – 14 June 1782) was a British soldier and courtier. He was the illegitimate son of Col...
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  • Merchantman For private owner. Unknown date Thirteen Colonies New England Lord Ligonier Slave ship For James Debatt and Daniel Vialars. Unknown date Denmark-Norway...
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  • Gambia, Kunta Kinte (who arrived to the modern United States in the Lord Ligonier ship), thank to a story written by Alex Haley and based, partially,...
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    Prestonpans, the dragoons led the way, an order that their commander, Francis Ligonier, allegedly viewed as "the most extraordinary ever given". Their horses...
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    20 August 1821); Mary Henley (1753–1814), married 1) Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, and 2) Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth. He was succeeded...
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    During the Seven Years' War (1754–63) he was firstly aide-de-camp to Lord Ligonier and then adjutant to the British forces fighting on the continent. He...
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    Ligonier), was later moved to Ligonier, Pennsylvania, where it is now preserved, along with St. Clair artifacts and memorabilia at the Fort Ligonier Museum...
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